How to export outlook.live.com Calendar?

Anonymous
2016-08-08T19:00:11+00:00

I would like to export my outlook.live.com Calendar to a non-Microsoft app.

Instructions that I have found by searching suggest doing a File -> Export, but when I have selected my outlook.live.com Calendar (tab) I don't have an Export choice in my browser's (Firefox) File menu.

Trying this with I.E. I see a File -> Import and Export.... menu item, but the 'Import and Export' wizard appears to only allow me to export Favorites, Feeds, or Cookies.

Do I mis-understand how to access the Export function?   Or, has the procedure changed?

Thanks for any guidance.

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Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,925 Reputation points
2016-08-08T21:21:58+00:00

The File>Import & Export advice is for Office Outlook, the mail client you install on your PC. It has nothing to do with Outlook.com's calendar.

Log into your calendar and select Options gear>Options>Publish. Right-click the ICS URI and choose "Save target as". This will give you an ICS file you can import into another program, provided that program can import ICS files.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-09-18T20:37:21+00:00

    Brian,

    The error message looks like it refers to a Win 10 pc registry entry, but I have tried to do the same thing from Ubuntu and the error message is the same.

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  2. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,925 Reputation points
    2016-09-18T21:40:05+00:00

    Log into http://calendar.live.com/. Click the Options gear, then Options. In the Options pane, under the Calendar section, select "Publish  calendar". The ICS URL will be displayed. Right-click and choose Save As to save it to your hard drive.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-09-19T08:16:43+00:00

    Log into http://calendar.live.com/. Click the Options gear, then Options. In the Options pane, under the Calendar section, select "Publish  calendar". The ICS URL will be displayed. Right-click and choose Save As to save it to your hard drive.

    Thanks for that Brian.

    However, the HTML and ICS links do not appear. All that appears are: 'select a calendar, show availability only / create, and show availability titles and locations / create'. When either of the Create options are clicked the same error is always displayed ( from two separate Win 10 pcs and from an Ubuntu device ):-

    'The user record already exists in Store. Possible reason - current session has MbxReadMode flag set to NoMbxRead. You need to read existing user from Store first before you can modify it.'

    I do not know what this means. It looks like a reference to the Windows pc registry, but since Find hangs in Win 10 regedit and regedt32 I don't know if it is there. In any case if it did refer to the local registry why would it appear when accessing Outlook.com from Ubuntu.

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  4. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,925 Reputation points
    2016-09-19T21:22:05+00:00

    I've requested advice on how to interpret and deal with this error from a contact of mine on the Outlook.com team.

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